FY 2025 funding opportunities

At VCU, research begins with boldness, creativity and ambition that is transforming innovation and improving the human condition. And, we are succeeding, changing who is shaping and creating knowledge and ensuring that research serves our collective good by aligning our collective strengths toward with a focus on the four initiatives outlined under the One VCU Research Strategic Priorities Plan:

This year, we were pleased to offer the following funding opportunities:

VCU Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund (AHSS): Supporting, facilitating and enhancing the creation, production and dissemination of arts, humanities and social sciences research.
VCU Breakthroughs Fund: Supporting transdisciplinary teams to design unique, creative and innovative large-scale approaches to confront humanity’s grand challenges.
VCU Momentum Fund: Promoting impactful interdisciplinary research by providing multi-principal investigator research teams with support to prepare and submit competitive, external, multi-component large-scale proposals.
VCU Quest Fund: Supporting new, emerging or continuing research in any discipline or area of research focus, particularly work that advances transdisciplinary research, multidisciplinary research, cross-campus collaboration and research with a high potential for translation to practice or market.
VCU Commercialization Fund: Dedicated to the advancement of VCU inventions with a goal of bringing projects to a more mature stage of development and improving their chances of being licensed and brought to market.

Strategic funds details and application instructions

The next round of strategic funding opportunities will be posted here when available. Please direct any questions to ovprifunds@vcu.edu.